This is why I stopped ordering from them.
Also, they have Palantir AI tangled in their management and running the supply chain.
The same company that is trying to make the entire world a surveillance state, and are giddy about their AI being used to kill military targets.
A couple months ago I went to a Wendy’s and AI took my order.
That was the last time I went to a Wendy’s.
I would have placed a big order, then just drive away
Most drive thrust now are built in such a way that it isn’t really possible with tight curbs on both sides.
Just drive past the window and keep going
What was that like?
It was technically smooth and got my order right, but the whole time I was irritated that the money saved on a computer doing the job was not likely to find its way to the employees preparing food.
Or the savings passed on to the customers.
It’s completely on brand though.
CEO: I want to have state of the art AI-enabled surveillance on all aspects of our business. No vertical, no horizontal, no customer, will escape the gaze of our panopticon!
VP: Sir, this is Wendy’s.
I stopped ordering from them because they pay their employees garbage wages and expect them to perform like they’re being paid at a king’s ransom.
Case in point the Wendy’s near me was running with two people for over half a year. This was long after the pandemic by the way.
Where does one get this analysis?
This is an app called “Goods Unite Us” on Android. I think they have a site and iPhone app too.
Cool, but I’m skeptical of how accurate this is. According to the app, Amazon predominantly supports Democrats (by a 2 to 1 margin), and donated to Kamala but not the Orange Pedophile. That seems fishy seeing how Bezos was getting the VIP treatment at the inauguration. Am I misunderstanding something (won’t be the first time)?
It does seem out of date. I hadn’t used it in awhile. I hope it’s not shovelware.
TYVM!
Or you can just use the website and not take up room on your device and let them data mine you.
everything has to be an app needs to stop
I could not agree more. One of the very worst things about the “modern” web.
The app has zero permissions and takes up ~65MB.
The apple App Store shows lots of data linked to the user. Eh…
Oooo, that’s a neat site!
Good to know, thanks.
Same I love me some Wendy’s chicken nuggets and sandwich. A frosty once in a while is nice. Even enjoyed some of their breakfast stuff they added a few years back. Not a damn cent since Trump 2024/figured out they repub donors. Eat shit. Love driving by and seeing the Wendy’s empty as fuck.
I stopped ordering because the food is shit, but now I’ll never give them another chance
so they did this to themselves. nice.
What a shame, I kinda liked their burgers back when meat didn’t make me kinda nauseous.
Damn now I have to add it to the list with Steak and Shake
Go woke go broke lmfao
I stopped ordering from them because of the heartburn and reflux. I stopped meeting friends there because of their morals. And I’ll mock them endlessly for sponsoring their own destruction.
I hope that the employees from all these Wendy’s (nutsonyourchin, I’m sorry!) land jobs at Costco and that local restaurants succeed at establishing roots in the ashes of this cursed company.
That Wendy is kind of a bitch wow
This is good to know. Now I have more ammo to never go there again. I will miss their spicy chicken sando tho, it’s my favorite of the fastfood chicken sandos, but that’s a small price to pay.
Wendy’s was a big part of my coming of age days…1$ double stacks sustained me during my senior year in HS…These days their food is shitty and overpriced.
I ended up at one this weekend and was taken aback by the prices.
So, comparable to everyone else in their “food genre”
Yes…
With how expensive fast food is now, you might as well just go to a slightly more expensive place and get a higher quality burger or whatever.
I used to love Wendy’s and went to Wendy’s a little while ago and just got a burger no fries nothing else and it was like 9 dollars. I was blown away and never want to go back. All these cheap chains jacked up their prices and saw temporary profits but then customers realize it’s not a good deal and stop going. Late stage capitalism really sucks.
Of all the fast food restaurants, I still go to Wendy’s like once a year. And you aren’t kidding. The 4 by 4 shrunk, and before, it was $4, but now $7.
The one-use app coupons brought it back down. But f that noise.
It’s still cheaper than the average lunch in my city, where meals cost $12-15.
A lot of sit down restaurants are about the same quality as fast food used to be and twice as expensive. It’s just not worth it to eat out
That hasnt been my experience at all. If I go somewhere for 2x the cost of fast-food, the quality is usually far ahead
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer … or whatever…
Wendys has the best deal on a meal that I know of, if you are really hurting. You can get the $6 bag which is about 800 calories plus drinks. You could technically survive on $7 a day there if you drink a few drinks while there.
I looked it up, and assuming I’m looking at the right one, the price and availability differ depending on location. I’d be kind of surprised if it’s that cheap where I live.
I’m in the U.S but some states have extra taxes and stuff. I’m in a poorer part of the U.S
Sir, this was a Wendy’s.
Now it’s a weed shop.
Not for long!
Was looking for this comment. Was not disappointed.
In the late 80s and early 90s, Wendy’s was the best for dumpster diving. You could get a basketball-sized sphere of ground meat out of the trash around 2-3am. Peel off the outside inch or so, and you’d have meat for days.
Dominoes dumpsters were another source of awesomeness back then. It was a very different time.
ಠ_ಠ
There’s a Wendy’s by me, a few summers ago in the drive thru lane cockroaches would just climb on your car, windshield, it was nasty as hell. This happened twice and I told a friend about it, and he’s like “Oh you mean the roach Wendy’s.” Sigh. I was coming down off meth binges so I didn’t really care, just needed enough hot food to pass out.
And that’s my pitch for a Wendy’s commercial, which hasn’t happened yet.
Jesus christ…
Hope you’re doing better.
4 years clean as of last month, thanks for caring :)
That’s incredible, well done. I’m sitting here in awe of your fortitude and determination. Four days of breaking dependence is great, four years is magnificent. I hope conditions and your strength see you through another four, and many, many more.
When I said bring back the 90s I did not mean health and food insecurity!
But the CEO did receive his yearly 999999 milion dollar bonus, right?
Of course he will as will the shareholders see record profits. Doesn’t matter if they kill the brand to do so either.
Wow, nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million dollars! No wonder they’re not profitable!
Messed with the fries four times too many.
Yep their fries are awful
Their fries are super mid, but always had the better tasting burgers out of the FF chains in my town which balanced it out. Now it’s more like I don’t want to spend 10.89 on a basic burger only, not even a fucking combo.
Honestly, for me, it was when they took the grilled chicken sandwich off the menu. They had the best grilled chicken in fast food, and they replaced with a thoroughly mid wrap.
Wraps all suck
They really do.
I’ve had a few that I really liked, but even those, I think I would have liked more as a sandwich with actual bread.
Have they tried enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling?
Them suggesting dynamic pricing is why I stopped going there. …Well that, and because for the prices they are already charging, I can simply get better quality food.
They were the first to suggest dynamic pricing. It was received poorly.
Don’t give 'em ideas to drive it into the ground even faster! I didn’t GAF about the corporate jackasses, but plenty of low income people need their jobs - especially with what’s coming soon after all the fuckery Trump has been subjecting the country’s economy to.
I used to love Wendy’s! Then one day they shrunk the patty/tomato/lettuce they put on the JBC to the point where the thing is like 80% bun and I was done with them.
OK, I’ve seen this episode before. Which Private Equity is it?
They merged with Arby’s in 2008, so none.
They’re publicly traded but still have a high stock ownership by private equity. Arby’s is directly owned by private equity.
McDonald’s owned a large number of it’s locations prior to the real estate boom. As a consequence, they were more aptly described as a real estate management than food services business model by the late '00s.
A lot of their relative success has come from avoiding the crippling rent increases other fast food vendors have had to endure.
Look at the prices of your salads and then deal with that! They were good salads (before out of the blue you halved the size as if we wouldn’t notice). You even upped the four-for-four without adding anything.
Wendy’s brought this on itself
Over the last ten years or so, every US restaurant got it in their head that salads should cost the same as every other meal on the menu. When I can make seven salads at home for less than the price of one at a restaurant, I’m simply going to make salads at home.
I fucking love the summer salad. I can’t afford it, so I’ve only had it like twice, but it is delicious. I don’t get how a pile of leaves can cost more than $10
I’m guessing it’s really to extract shareholder wealth and then declare bankruptcy once everything has trickled up
Have they tried not having shit food?
Wendy’s used to be good, but all the ones around me are not well run at all. Burger King is the same way.
